Life — June 8, 1899 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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The EMDARKATION on the MAYPLOWER. HE hero of Emilo Zola's now novel, to be published in the Aurore, 18.an exemplary French husband. That settles it. Zola is the propar man to write “Tho History of the Snakes in Ireland.” HE cablo tells us that Mark Twain got stage fright, and forgot tho lines of the Gorman spoech he had learned to deliver when he shook hands with the Emporor Francis Josoph. Mark has already expressed ono well-known opinion of the German languago in an easay of considerable length. On this ocea- sion the opinion was probably expressed with more brevity, . . . THE postmen of Parte went on a strike, ‘Tile toterfered with the tatls. In Chicago, when a strike interfered with the matls, Mr. Cleveland, despite the Governor's pro- test, called out the soldiers to shoot the strikers, Incidentally, he permitted the matis to be used as a pretext fo help the fight against union labor. ‘The French authorities also called out the ler’ when the matis were interfered with, at they did not call them out to shoot the strik: ers. They gave each soldier a bag of letters and Jet him deliver the mati, ‘The reason why the French anthorities do not cali out so'dlers to shoot strikers ts very simple; SHOWING A FEW OF OCR ANCESTORS, the French strikers won't stand It, They have proved that so often that the fact 1s now estab- Ixhed. When the workmen in this country shall suc- ceed in making clear to the Clevelands, Car- heglex aud others the fact that they don't pro- Po" '2,42 aot, the ahoottng of them will cease. t ls not the French Government that Is to be congratulated, but the Pi workman who declines to be shot, — New York Ecening Journal. This is a fair samplo of what passes for brains in the world of yellow journalism. In somo countries it would causo tho im- prisonment of the writer, and the suppres- sion of tho publication, Hero wo simply wonder when the writer will reach his allotted cell in tho idiot asylum, and, according to our temperaments, are amused or nauseated by cach fresh attempt of yel- low journalism to fool tho foolish. . . . MBASSADOR CHOATE has been answering a toast to or “Tho Drama” ata theatri- caldinner; Mr, Riley Gran- nan has been winning twenty -flvo thousand pounds over a raco on an English course, and Mr, Tod Sloano has offered to reim- burse an English lady of title who bewailed her losses on his mounts, Our missionary band in Great Britain appears to be accom- plishing almost as much in demonstrating American civilization to the natives as the ono in the Philippines. HE State of New Jersey is breeding trusts almost as rap- idly and numerously as it does mosquitoes in tho open season, And tho neighboring States fur- nish the principal sustenance for to h. . . . ORD ROSEBERY says that his ideal newspaper would be one without any editorial page. He ought to subseribo for the New York Herald, Broke. “CAN you lend me five dollars?” asked Wilberforce of Gilder- sleeve, ** Last night,” was the latter’s reply, “*T attended a church ice-cream festival with Miss Frock: if ERE is an account of a New England farmer who bas been missing for three weeks.” “ Perbaps he has concealed himself in the front parlor.” KENSTEIN: Oh, vell, I am holdting my own, anyhow. Swinptenaum: Vat does dot amoundt to? Ven you get to holdin’ oder people's own, den you can pegin to prag!